Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to have a sticky thread at the top of the emulators section of the forum with details of all the emulators available? I'm thinking of a list for each system with links to the homepage/GitHub page/whatever of each emulator for that system.
I'm suggesting this as I'm struggling to find an electron emulator for Linux and thought 'Wouldn't it be useful if there was one post with all the details of all the current emulators in it?' I also think it would be useful for all the new members do as to save them lots of fruitless searching.
Developers can post updates in the thread and I'd summarise it all in the top post.
Anyone agree with me or am I on my own?

Sounds good to me. If you'd leave room also to note whether any Windows-based emulators run happily using WINE on Linux or Mac OS that would be good - that's how I often end up running. (When jsbeeb isn't what I need, and visual6502 isn't either...)

I think I'd go further than that Ed and include compilation instructions for each emulator too. I've found installing dependencies to be problematic on more than one occasion so a full 'howto' could be added.

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Sounds good to me. If you'd leave room also to note whether any Windows-based emulators run happily using WINE on Linux or Mac OS that would be good - that's how I often end up running. (When jsbeeb isn't what I need, and visual6502 isn't either...)

Sounds good I'd expect compilation instructions to be on a projects Github page, or wherever, which should always be current.

Yes I dont think we want to duplicate the compile instructions, as Pernod says it should be on Github (or code repo of choice), that way lead. A column that links to build insructions/indicates they are available etc.

I suppose for dead projects with poor dodcs you could have a compile doc if someone is willing to maintain it (i.e. if some one was willing to maintain it then would it be a dead project ).

The problem I've had has been missing dependencies so perhaps instructions on how to install the dependencies rather than compilation instructions. For example, B-em needs allegro5 but the instructions I followed to install it missed out all the audio and other parts so compilation failed.

It would be possible to add a subforum to the emulators forum for each system or emulator. So a subforum each for atom, beeb and electron or a subforum each for B-EM, Beebem, elkulator, electron etc. Would this be a useful addition? If so which would be the best way to do it? By system or emulator? Am I taking this too far?

It would be possible to add a subforum to the emulators forum for each system or emulator. So a subforum each for atom, beeb and electron or a subforum each for B-EM, Beebem, elkulator, electron etc. Would this be a useful addition? If so which would be the best way to do it? By system or emulator? Am I taking this too far?

Is there enough posts individually to split it up into that many sub topics?

It would be possible to add a subforum to the emulators forum for each system or emulator. So a subforum each for atom, beeb and electron or a subforum each for B-EM, Beebem, elkulator, electron etc. Would this be a useful addition? If so which would be the best way to do it? By system or emulator? Am I taking this too far?

And how do you handle MAME/MESS which emulate to some extent pretty much every generation of Acorn machine......

It would be possible to add a subforum to the emulators forum for each system or emulator. So a subforum each for atom, beeb and electron or a subforum each for B-EM, Beebem, elkulator, electron etc. Would this be a useful addition? If so which would be the best way to do it? By system or emulator? Am I taking this too far?

And how do you handle MAME/MESS which emulate to some extent pretty much every generation of Acorn machine......

Cheers.

Phill.

There could be a separate "Multi-system" section.

Seems I'm on my own with this so I'll not bother with the individual subforums for now. I'll get on with the sticky post now but I'm probably going to need some assistance as I'm not up to date with the atom side of things.